Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

- Wheeler, John Archibald

Best Quotes about Knowledge

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

10.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.